Women Called “Fat Girls” In Latest Insulting Receipt Incident

24/12/2012 By

Another incident in the recent trend of receipts containg insulting messages has occured in Stockon, California. As reported by online roulette site Roulette For Fun, Christine Duran, Christina Huerta and Isabel Robles were paying for their meal at Chilly D’s Sports Lounge inside the local Cameo Club Casino, when one of them noticed the phrase “Fat Girls” on the check. In disbelief, the women demanded an explanation from the casino’s restaurant’s manager, who made matters worse by demanding that they still pay their bill, with a partial discount. They refused and left the building. After hearing about the incident, Chilly D’s management and the owner of the Cameo Club Casino apologized to the women via Facebook. Jimmy Siemers, co-owner of Chilly D’s, has also pledged to address the women’s concerns.

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This rude-receipt is only the latest in a string of incidents of the same type. In January of last year, a customer at a New York City Papa John’s Pizza received a receipt calling her “Lady Chinky Eyes.” The woman posted an image of the receipt to social media and quickly received an apology from the company. In March, a Baltimore woman’s receipt from an area Radio Shack contained the phrase “Ugly Itch” and other insults. In this case, too, the company quickly offered an apology to the woman via phone. It remains unclear what action, if any, Radio Shack management took against the offending employee.

Technology blog Gizmodo has posted a gallery of recent offensive receipts. Whether incidents with insulting receipts are on the rise or simply better publicized through social media is unknown.

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How to write a book, celeb-style

29/11/2012 By

If you want to know how to write a book, you probably wouldn’t think that looking to celebrities and those in showbiz would be the ideal first place to find inspiration. And you might be right. Here’s our list of some celebs who have written books, and what you can learn from them (here’s a hint: not much!) If only they had known about an online novel-writing course like Now Novel their books could have been more than just another blog entry.

  1. A Shore Thing by Nicole Snooki Polizzi
    If you are a celeb, the name you are known by must be the largest item on your book cover. Snooki shows us how to write a book by ensuring that nobody cares what’s inside the book, as long as the letters SNOOKI are in giant print on the book cover.
  2. The Truth About Diamonds by Nicole Richie
    Is it a novel or is it an autobiography? This semi-autobiographical book went on to become a New York Times bestseller.
  3. Propeller One-Way Night Coach by John Travolta
    The king of the dance floor shows us how to write a book in this short novel that tells the story of a young boy who travels on an aeroplane for the first time.
  4. Sisters by Lynne Cheney
    Less a celeb than a politically placed famous person, Lynne Cheney is the wife of former US Vice President Dick Cheney, and wrote this book in 1981 – a 19th-century historical novel filled with strong women.
  5. The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke
    Although Ethan Hawke is a brilliant actor, he could have done with a few tips on how to write a book himself, as this 1996 novel was an abject failure and a box office flop.
  6. Star by Pamela Anderson
    No Pamela Anderson production would be complete without the lady’s most popular asset – her breasts – front and centre. Her book cover does not disappoint!
  7. Junior by Macauley Culkin
    If you like stream of consciousness and you want to know how to write a book that thinly veils real life, Macauley Culkin’s book might be rather helpful…
  8. L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad
    Not sure who Lauren Conrad is? The star of MTV’s hit reality show, The Hills. Which you can find out about in her book, another real-life-but-not-really debut.

The advice seems clear: if you want to know how to write a book celeb-style, simply write about how you became a celebrity, and change the names of all the people in your life. If you want to write a book that has worth and value, however, check out Now Novel, an online novel-writing course that ensures you have depth and value to your work.

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Explore the Dreams of our Kids

22/11/2012 By

Most children admire a certain celebrity or they may even look up to more then one famous person. As parents, we want their room to be a place of comfort as well as be inviting for our child. Why not create a bedroom of our child’s favorite celebrity?
We can create any look we want using celebrity canvas prints. These canvases come in many different categories including movie stars, music artists, and even cartoon characters. They come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and colors. With these canvas prints, we can create a bedroom a child only dreams of. This may sound as if it will be very expensive. This isn’t so. Many celebrity canvases can be found at affordable prices. So affordable that we can purchase more then one to create a long lasting smile on our child’s face.
These prints would make an excellent gift for a birthday, Christmas, or any other special day to your kids. It would be something totally different to offer as a gift. The child will be truly amazed to see their favorite celebrity on the wall of their bedroom. They will want to tell all their friends about it. The parents will even be happy to. The smile on their face will be a gift to us unlike any other. A celebrity canvas print will take a child’s bedroom from plain to fantastic in no time at all.

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Victoria’s Seceret Outdoes Itself Again

14/11/2012 By

Perhaps one of the most highly anticipated events of the year is the Victoria’s Secret fashion show. Although the show already took place in New York City, it will be aired on television December 4, 2012. Known for it elaborate use of props and costumes, Victoria Secret continues to pull out all the stops in this year’s show. Few of the themes are seasons, carnival, holidays (leprechaun anyone?) and of course the famous Victoria Secret Angels with gravity defying wings attached to each model.

Headlining the show is Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Bruno Mars. Each entertainer sang songs as the Victoria’s Secret models charged the runway. The grand moment of the runway was the unveiling of the lucky model who would wear the famous multi-million dollar bra. This year it was Alessandra Ambrosio who is a Brazilian model.

Shortly after the show, Victoria’s Secret apologized for its’ use of Native American headdress. The model wearing the headdress will not be shown in the televised broadcast as part of Victoria Secret’s apology.

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Trouble On Sesame Street

19/10/2012 By

It seems that Sesame Street just can’t stay off the front page of the news lately. Big Bird was bought to the forefront this year when during a Presidential debate, Mitt Romney announced he would cut funding to programs such as PBS in which Sesame Street airs on. Suddenly Big Bird became one of the symbols of President Obama’s campaign as he promised to not cut funding for the popular show.

Recently, Kevin Clash who is the voice and puppeteer of Elmo, has been accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a then minor. Clash has taken leave from the show while the allegations are being brought to light. He has admitted that he had a relationship with the accuser, but only while he was a legal adult.

Other past scandals on Sesame Street include Katy Perry’s appearance. The skit was cut and not shown on the show as it was deemed overly sexual. Perry donned a skimpy outfit that left little to the imagination during the skit. Cookie Monster has also been changed to tell children to enjoy cookies in moderation, Bert and Ernie have been publicly stated to not be gay by producers and in 2011 the show’s website was hacked with porn images.

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Schwarzenegger Wants to Save Marriage

15/10/2012 By

Rumors say that the Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has begged his wife, Maria Shriver, to fight for their marriage.

After news came out that Arnie was the father of a 13 year old son of the former housekeeper of the family, the couple split up. They had been together for 25 years. The Austrian-American actor/politician is not willing to give up so easily though and would really like to get another chance to prove he will be a better man. Schwarzenegger and Shriver have four children together, 2 girls and 2 boys aged 21 to 13.

Ian Halperin, writer of an unauthorized biography for Schwarzenegger, said that Arnold has been crying and knows that he was wrong. He has tried to contact Maria multiple times asking for another chance.

So far, however, it seems Maria is not willing to give him another chance. She has been seen having lunch with U2’s Bono for advice. Maria and Bono have a long friendship and Bono is just helping Maria deal with all things that have happened. It’s a huge shock to Maria that Arnold has been cheating on her for such a long time and she needs someone to talk about it.

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